Map of Cairo, 1595. 'Cairos, quae olim Babylon; Aegypti maxima urbs'. Map of Cairo, from Vol. 2 of Mercator/Braun and Hogenburg/Blaeu Composite Atlas. Note crocodiles bottom left, and pyramids at right.

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